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OH, MY GOTH -- DARK CULTURAL PHENOMENON THRIVING, SCHOLARS SAY
Illinois professor Lauren Goodlad and Michael Bibby, a professor of English at Shippensburg University, are co-editors and contributors to "Goth: Undead Subculture," the first collection of scholarly essays devoted to goth. "If anything is clear about goth," they write, "it is the undeadness of its appeal even as the social and cultural formations of the modern world become ever more globalized."

Pete Craft Named Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellow

Published Date:September 4, 2007

Congratulations to Ph.D. Pete Craft on winning the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship for 2007-08. The Liebmann Fellowship is a highly competitive national award intended to support students "with outstanding character and ability who hold promise for achievement and distinction in theirchosen fields of study." The award is open to graduate students in all disciplines, is subject to two elimination processes, and only the top three candidates from each university go on to the national competition.The fellowship will support Pete's full-time research this year on his dissertation, which is entitled Warfare, Trade, and "Indians" in English Literature, 1652-1719.